A feed is a way you can be constantly updated on the recent posts from your favorite blogs. The most popular feeds are RSS and Atom feeds. To read these feeds you need a feedreader, which is also called an aggregator. Some popular Web-based feedreaders include MyYahoo, Google Reader, and Bloglines.
To add a feed from this blog to a feedreader, just add this http:
http://oneresolve.wordpress.com/feeds
WordPress.com gives these five reasons why feeds are good:
- If you have 10 friends who have blogs, then to see if they have blogged anything you need to visit their sites to see that. 10 visits you will need to make and that’s 10 page loads. If you had a feedreader, it can check those 10 blogs every hour and let you know when one had been updated. That saves you time.
- If you are on dial-up, you don’t have to visit 10 blogs and load all that information. Your reader will get just the latest posts. That saves you time.
- If you have a lot of readers, each page hit costs you bandwidth as visitors need to download the whole page to read what you have written. Giving a feed means people will use that and you save bandwidth. (Not applicable to wordpress.com but it’s still a reason)
- You can have constant searches. If you go to the web-based blog aggregators you can search inside their feeds. Let’s say you have an interest in ‘Dr Pepper’. You could search for that – and the results page will have a feed. If you load that feed into your reader then you will have a constant search for ‘Dr Pepper’ at that site. Additionally you can usually set up a reader to watch for words in all the feeds it gets too.
- If your feedreader archives, then you can keep lots of information in that as a reference. For example, if you read something in a feed and then a few days later you need that article again, your feedreader should be able to search and find what you need.
